Letters to the Editor: Obama accountable from this point on

Perhaps it's time to re-educate folks. Please feel free to do your own research to verify or reject the following thoughts for yourself.

First, let me state the obvious. Barack Obama was re-elected. He is our president for four more years. No soul searching, no hand wringing - it is what it is. It is also useless to try to figure out why. At this point it really doesn't matter.

About 60 years ago, high schools actually had classes called Government, Civics, or some variation thereof. Our governmental system and how it worked was discussed, although perhaps not as in-depth as it should have been.

The point: America is a constitutional republic. We are not a monarchy or are we a dictatorship (yet). Our government was very established as an organization with three separate and equal branches. Within that framework checks and balances were placed. When established, the office of the presidency was actually the least important of the three. Throughout history, various men have tried to make the president the ruling authority. He isn't (again, yet), and he was never intended to be.

With our history/government lesson done, here is my real point: Obama is the president. But the "people" decided to check his program by continuing to elect a Republican majority to the House of Representatives. That means that a "check" exists on unfettered power if the opposition party does what the "people" elected them to do.

As a recent letter to the editor correctly pointed out, unless Obama attempts a run around the Congress that is extra-constitutional, he needs to temper his extremism and actually try to rebuild this once great nation. If the next two years gives America extreme far-left programs, we might see another midterm election debacle for the Democrats.

All you "blame Bush" crowd are done. What happens from here is solely on the president and the Democrats. He can make it worse, or he and the rest of the progressives can actually work with Republicans and not only rebuild America, but make a legacy for himself as a great president.

James M. Levy

Montgomery

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Letters to the Editor: Obama accountable from this point on

Perhaps it's time to re-educate folks. Please feel free to do your own research to verify or reject the following thoughts for yourself. First, let me state the obvious. Barack Obama was re-elected.

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